But, but, Rob. It’s a nice image!
That's just unavoidable technique; the model is crap: she's built like a box.
The boats in the bay should never be there in winter; the north wind comes howling down between those mountains and havoc is created. The reason they find themselves there right now is due to the cabin in the snap: the port authorities have decided to throw everybody out so that they can use the low season for making a lot of changes to the mooring chains out in the sea, and the bollards have been removed, either for replacement with new ones or something, so the boats would have nothing to which to tie themselves.
I remember a young guy who was skipper to a boat in this port telling me that he had to
crawl along the pier once in the 80s or get blown onto his face. Mistral et al. - we get 'em all in this spot! By the way, his pier doesn't exist today; the new marina was built later on.
Missed deals: when the new marina was being constructed my wife and I were offered club membership for around 360 pounds; as we had decided boats were not gonna happen we passed. Today, there's a waiting list, and it'll cost you about 23 grand to join. A mooring, bought then, would today have solved all my financial worries via renting it out. Thank goodness I'm no longer able to kick myself in the ass!